Push-up punishment extends to entire Jets organization

Posted by Mike Florio on November 12, 2010, 10:13 AM EDT

After a Week One loss to the Ravens, Jets coach Rex Ryan instituted an old-school approach to penalties. If one player on defense committed a penalty in practice, the other 10 men had to do 10 pushups each.

“That didn’t work,” G.M. Mike Tannenbaum told Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News. Another 11 penalties in Sunday’s game against the Lions placed the Jets at No. 27 on the NFL’s list.

So Ryan expanded the approach on Wednesday, requiring the entire team to do 10 pushups whenever someone commits a penalty. And the tactic spread like a Walking Dead zombie virus.

“It snowballed, where the coaches did it,” Tannenbaum told Mehta. “So I’m like, ‘Screw that. If they’re doing it, I’m going to do it.’ So Woody’s out there with me. So Woody does it. I was right next to him. The trainers, the video people . . . everyone starts doing it. I did them with Woody.”

How far will it go? “We’re actually thinking of the media [doing them],” Tannenbaum said. “Hey, we’re all in it together.”

It’s a win-win situation, really. Either the Jets will iron out their penalty issues, or Tannenbaum and the other coaches and aging front-office types who have gently fallen out of shape soon will be looking more buff than Khan.

I can just see Braylon Edwards getting all warm and fuzzy feeling about TEAM when he is doing push ups for something someone else did. This is a high school trick, and it will only create anamosity and not unity. Keep it up please!

Had anyone read past the first line before coming to conclusions , the story was about everyone showing unity including coaches and even the owner = winning formula. Enjoy your humble pie when the Jets break in Jerry Jones’s new stage haters

Geez, diehard15, where’s your sense of humor? How a coach disciplines players for game penalties is football news … even if it’s about a team and coach you don’t like. But here’s a suggestion: When you see a Jets headline, don’t look. (And no, I’m not a Jets fan.)

awww the jets are sooo cuteee. woody and mike do pushups together, how precious. theyre just one of the guyss, right? what a united group of pals. this is soft as cream cheese in july…begging for attention…just sorry…lets giggle about being one of the most penalized teams in the league…that should help